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1825 June 23
Judications Rationale of Reward
In the military department army service the aggregates with their respective hands
exert throughout the whole of the scale, conduct were under the command omitting command: the scale is therefore
in the scale of power. In this aggregate of all civil departments, no
On such scale of power now places ofthe
many in the same grade, the functions are altogether different while in different grades they function in many instances the means
The scale them if of any
thing, is a scale not of power, but of factitious
dispute.
Of factitious deputy
in general mention is
in general, and how
made in another place
and on that occasion it is shewn
how ill adapted to the increase
of useful beneficient
service how surely
well adapted to
and extremely productive
mischievous it is? of mischievous
effects mention
has ben made elsewhere
Conduct in itself, the institution is in applicate
Suppose no such thing in existence, infact service generally usefulof the matter of factitious de: and as such exposed to all the
will in proportion as it is known be followed by general respect. It
with it By an attraction unless natural than gravity such objection to which the people it manifests that title
service draws to it its own reward: and that in the best adapted proportion imaginably no increase than attractive power
to public respect stands exposed all that is necessary or was wanting, or
is applicable notoriety. To this purpose as to most others the power of government: and with the exception of money and power in so far as money or power is necessary,
nothing Factitious security as a draught drawn or the proper so good as th well adapted as this individual
a certain portion of them respect. Suppose it out of the , the notoriety applied to the individual service rendered on each occasion
by the individual can be done towards the increase of stock of generally respect of the people will of course be governed by their
useful service by the power of government with relation to them themselves
of the beneficialness of the itself, and that of the individual
and his conductin that same situation In preparation to the advances made by
them in appropriate knowledge and judgement the opinion will
cause this supposed beneficialness will come and
ma in its apparent to exact coincidence with the real
beneficialness in the two cases.
A factitious dignity
as a draught drawn
in favour of the dignatory
upon the people at large
for a certain portion
of their respect payable to the
individual the
draught to be produce
Such at any rate will be the standard to which situation
and evident will be applied: and it offers the description ofis almost sup
it is little better than to say that it is the
only true one: the distribution application of reason is then in the hands
and the only hands of the person and the only person whose interest it is that it be well applied
—
As such it supposes
a drawer. But the people
(such is their weakness)
being from infancy by habit
brought and accustomed will both predisposed
to pay the amount of this tribute to
whoever possesses the draught
to pledge it is received
every body for ill nogood ba
by every such person in one
and the same generality without any regard to service in any shape.
It is therefore all adapted as any object of desire can be, to the many
such purpose as that it giving increase to the stock of of something useful public service. use to which like money drawn for it is less little less adapted than money as the answering the individual purposes of the drawerhim, take whoever he be, by whom the draught ismade.
Place at in any other hand, you place it in the hand (and payment accordingly made
to the same amount
of him or them whose interest it in that it be not will be
ill applied applied to the for For simplicity of conception
say in the interest of hands of one person - the Monarch
It is his interest or what comes to the same thing it will be
appear to him to be his interest to apply it on each manner to the gratification
of his own users of all sorts: to the giving effect to his own will,
and time to the production of obsequiousness on the part of those
on whose operation that gratification more immediately depends
The sort of service for payment of which the draught it is drawn whether
before the receipt of the service is informed will be that which
in some gratification afforded in some shape or other to the will of the ,
or to some one or more of them who are in trust in favour with him
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